{"id":286153,"date":"2026-04-26T00:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/286153\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T00:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:19:11","slug":"25k-worth-of-items-stolen-in-lake-balboa-home-burglary-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/286153\/","title":{"rendered":"$25K worth of items stolen in Lake Balboa home burglary \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thieves hit a home in Lake Balboa<\/a> on Friday night, making off with at least $25,000 worth of valuables, police said.<\/p>\n

It happened on Shoshone Avenue at around 9:30 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Police say the thieves got away with $15,000 in jewelry and at least $10,000 worth of other items.<\/p>\n

The homeowner told NBC Los Angeles he got home with his wife and baby and found their glass back door smashed.<\/p>\n

“I open the door. I realize it’s unlocked. I looked inside \u2014 the house is completely trashed,” he said. “I told my wife, ‘Get in the car.’ I got in the car with her. We were just really freaked out. We didn’t even want to go inside and check it out until the police came.”<\/p>\n

Security cameras did not record the incident.<\/p>\n

“The police said they (the suspects) most likely shut off the WiFi before coming in,” the homeowner said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA thief took about $25,000 worth of items after breaking into a home in Lake Balboa. Annette Arreola reports for Today in LA on Saturday, April 25, 2026.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Since April 10, NBCLA is tracking at least 21 reported break-ins<\/a> at homes in and around the San Fernando Valley.<\/p>\n

According to the LAPD, as of last Saturday, reported burglaries in the Valley are down 42% compared to the same time last year. Still, police and the mayor’s office say they’re increasing patrols in the Valley to crack down on break-ins.<\/p>\n

Investigators say they don’t have a description of the thieves.<\/p>\n

“The first thing that goes through my mind is that I\u2019m blessed because my wife and son are safe,” the homeowner said. “But we\u2019re also kind of shocked and scared.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thieves hit a home in Lake Balboa on Friday night, making off with at least $25,000 worth of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,45918,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-286153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lake-balboa","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}